On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:43 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, david wrote: > >Edgy generates UUID's for partitions when installing, but if a new > >partition is created there is no UUID for it > > > >How do i create a UUID so that the system relates it to the new > >partition? Hours of googling hasn't hit the spot yet. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ apropos uuid > >findfs (8) - Find a filesystem by label or UUID > >uuid (3tcl) - UUID generation and comparison > >uuidgen (1) - command-line utility to create a new UUID value > >vol_id (8) - probe filesystem type and read label and uuid > > > >None of those look like what I want. > > YOu want to set a UUID on a, for exapmle, ext2 filesystem? > > Try tune2fs, for all your ext2 filesystem tuning needs! > > tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 will show the UUID, and -U will let you set it.
Unfortunately it's not an ext2 filesystem - it's fat16 as it happens, but the other possibilities are ext3. thanks anyway :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
